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Do we love our “virtual personality” enough online?

Do we love our “virtual personality” enough online?

Over 50% of the world population is under 30 years of age with those at school and college never having licked a stamp nor having to wait while their broadband dials-up. In world terms Facebook now has a larger audience than the population of any country, LinkedIn has...

Rams galore at Kelso

Rams galore at Kelso

Over the last few weeks I have struggled to decide on a topic for my first JCM blog – that was until Friday, when I travelled 200 miles south to the Scottish Borders and experienced my first Kelso Ram Sale. The Kelso Ram Sale is considered by many in the livestock...

Dairy doldrums stimulate new ventures in northern Scotland

Dairy doldrums stimulate new ventures in northern Scotland

The number of dairy herds in the north east and the north of Scotland is a tale of woe. In the first six months of this year, the Scottish Dairy Cattle Association revealed that we now have just 28 dairy herds in Aberdeenshire (I was surprised there were this many),...

#wildthinking

#wildthinking

Hutdesking, updesking and blue sky thinking. So nearly corporate, but not quite. And so very not corporate when in the context of Guardswell, a farm with a difference on a hilltop between Perth and Dundee.